Following schooling in Brazil and the United States, Miguel Kertsman attended Berklee College of Music in Boston receiving scholarships and graduating with honors in record time in Music, Production, and Engineering. Further studies included composition with Lithuanian modernist Jeronimas Kačinskas, and Walter Piston’s pupil John Bavicchi; orchestral conducting with Attilio Poto - Arturo Toscanini’s and Serge Koussevitzky’s clarinetist and assistant - at the Boston Conservatory; and composition with Prof. Stanley Wolfe at the Juilliard School in New York.

Kertsman’s compositions and record productions go beyond music genre boundaries encompassing Symphonic, Chamber, and Vocal Music for the Concert Stage, as well as Theater, Jazz, Pop, Electronica, and music for applied media. His Orchestral and Chamber Music works have been performed or recorded in New York, London, Rio de Janeiro, Bonn, Vienna, São Paulo, Linz, Chicago, and at the United Nations by: mezzo soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, guitarist John Williams, Wiener Symphoniker Kammerorchester, London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Dennis Russell Davies, flutists Wolfgang Schulz (Vienna Philharmonic), and Marina Piccinini, the Opera Viva Ensemble, Bruckner Orchester Linz, St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra, among others. Kertsman’s music has been globally released on CD by Sony Classical, and RCA Victor Group / BMG, and published in print by Universal Edition, Kossack Edition and other companies. His works and/or record productions have been extensively reviewed by the international press, broadcast and featured on the radio across all continents. Production Awards have included a Grammy Award Nomination, and the Cannes Classical Award.

Kertsman has served as faculty, artist-in-residence, and curriculum developer at Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts College in Chicago, a unit of Robert de Niro’s Tribeca Enterprises. He has lectured and held seminars at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, Northwestern University, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, while serving as faculty at the IES Abroad University Consortium - Vienna Center. Kertsman has designed courses and curricula for Danube University Krems for the MA programs in Music for Applied Media and Music Management, serving in the Center for Applied Music Research academic team as faculty while academically directing the Center’s aforementioned Master of Arts programs.

Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, 2015: Cultural Production
Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts College, Chicago: Fundamentals of Sound and Acoustics, Ear Training for Recording Engineers, Sound and Signal Processing, Sound and Synthesis, Survey of the Music Industry, Music Aesthetics
IES Abroad University Consortium, Vienna Center: Composition, Music Improvisation, Principles of recording, Sound, and Acoustics for Classical Musicians
Northwestern University, School of Music, Composition Class: Music Composition and Production, Colloquium
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna: Music Composition in Film and Interactive Media
Klangbilder Messe Wien: Audiophile Music Recording and Production
Rotary Club Wien Stadtpark: Music and Society

Austrian Film Music Day, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna: Panel, Fachtalk "Film & Musik": Welche Chancen & Perspektiven bietet das Geschäftsfeld "Interaktive Medien" für Film(musik)schaffende?
Hollywood in Vienna Symposium, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Panel: Orchestral Playing to Click Tracks / Scoring, the Market and Costs
Danube University Krems: Music Aesthetics, Listening and Analysis, Directed Study in Orchestral Composition, Orchestration, Principles of Sound and Acoustics, Methods of Sound Production, Sound Design, Signal Processing and Synthesis, Music Scoring According to Genres and Aesthetics, Survey of the Classical Music Industry, The Meaning of Entrepreneurship for Music Professionals, Music for Film and Applied Media, Global Music Manifestations (part of Music History and Development), Final Course Project and Master Thesis Supervision